syria pledges to retaliate to world as close ally iran wants of diet consequences after israel launches a bombing raid on a target near damascus also. i took a strong stance and a very public one and that's what got me into trouble. to expose america's torture program and got thirty months for doing so coming up a decorated cia veteran who turned against the agency tells of his predicament on our team. that still unique footage surfaces of allege atrocities committed by mali and troops in towns freshly taken from islam is this as reports of civilian casualties remain hard to obtain and fronts up plans avoid military handover to local troops. and a british prime minister david cameron defines warnings of an eminence reggie u.k. interest and travels to libya where he has pledged to help train the countries that

stretched security forces. you're watching r t a live from moscow with me say first the frozen video footage apparently showing israeli planes bombing syria's military research facility has appeared on the internet the video was uploaded to the web by activists who are thought to be from a district close to the target and shows bright flashes in the night sky loud bangs were heard at the site shortly after midnight on wednesday television correspondent has more. now we are hearing from syria that israel did launch a military strike inside their country israel has not commented neither confirming nor denying these reports the syrian ambassador to lebanon did say that it was not

clear when ever tell you would happen and that it was up to the powers that be to decide on such decisive action but he did say that it was an option and that it was and would be a surprise now the iranian deputy foreign minister has also stated that this israeli attack has serious implications for the israeli city of tel aviv and those are indeed quite harsh warnings what we understand from syria from syrian sources is that the israelis hit a research center not far from the capital city of damascus and that at least two unsigned workers were killed there are also reports that the strike hit a convoy of weapons that was making its way from syria to lebanon now washington reportedly was warned by israel of its intention to strike inside syria this kind of comment coming from a high ranking american official who has spoken on condition that he not be named

it is important to mention that a couple of months ago iran's revolutionary guard did say that assad had friends in the region who had not yet entered the fray the quote was that these planes were poised to strike out in case there was an intervention in syria earlier this month is well deployed it's i am going to defense in the small system to its border with syria and that this of a growing concern that they could be some kind of use of chemical weapons as i mentioned earlier we have no comment yet from tel aviv there also has been no comment from washington moscow has said if indeed these reports are accurate that the israelis did strike inside syrian territory it is a gross violation of the united nations charter the arab league for its side has slammed is roll for these alleged strikes saying that they are a flagrant act of aggression and a glaring violation of syria's sovereignty. for more twenty four seven updates on

the reported israeli bombing as well as opinions from inside the middle east check out polished twitter feed in one of our latest screens she's citing the hebrew medias which says a syrian rebel group has actually claimed responsibility for the attack on the military research center near damascus. i spoke to professor sayid mohammad marandi iranian academic and political analyst he says that israel should be concerned about iran's possible answer to the if strikes in syria. iran say the israelis are going to face serious consequences iranians have many means to hurt the israelis and to punish the israelis it doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be involved directly they could. support. countries or bodies that could could make life for israelis more difficult of course he ran the world the syrian sovereignty and i think that the americans and the israelis should

take this seriously because the iranians through soft power and other means have made life very difficult for american americans and their allies in the region over the past decade as we saw in iraq and afghanistan and in lebanon a lively and heated session in the u.s. senate job i must pick for defense secretary goes before lawmakers as a confirmation starts with a vocal protests already coming from the israeli lobby that still aids. thirty his own government's warnings to the winch british prime minister david cameron has touched on in tripoli for surprise visit he promised to stand by libya as it rebuilds even as his own foreign office want britons are going to threaten to its embassies the algae the endor farmer has more on what the pm hopes to achieve.

did arrive initially amid very tight security and then he stressed that he wanted britain to try and beef up security in libya and try and help it improve its own economy there's no doubting that things have deteriorated in this country since twenty eleven when mr cameron last made his visit here just after the overthrow of colonel gadhafi the new libyan government is struggling with a lack of resources it's also struggling to its authority over militias and on top of this recently the british government admitted that there was a threat to its own embassy in tripoli and that it had advised british nationals to leave benghazi because of security concerns so mr cameron is well aware that there are problems and no doubt he will be talking about these when he meets with the libyan prime minister and the president during the rest of his visit but there was one telling moment today because apart from all this he did make a fifteen minute walk about around martyrs square which was the center of the revolution and he did come in from algeria today in his visit to our g. of

a similar purpose really he was trying to show that britain has support for this country and he also made reference to algeria today and also talked about the terrorist attack at the gas plant there which saw which saw thirty seven foreign is killed you mention that that was a reminder that what happens in other countries affects us at home too so i suppose putting it simply is trying to show that britain still cares about these two countries mr cameron does have his critics though there are those that claim that really what he's trying to do is protect britain's own interests after all libya and algeria are among the top five producing all countries in africa. let's get more perspective now on the prime minister's visit with ben harris queeny chair of tory think tank the bulk group now mr harris queeny why would the prime minister ignore his own foreign ministries travel warnings then and go to libya it's a volatile area why was this visit so important for him. well firstly i don't think david cameron is ignoring the foreign office advice david cameron's visit to libya

is of course under very different circumstances to most british citizens that may be in libya or maybe visiting libya he went there with very high security and rightly so and so he's of course in doing so acknowledging the wrist but also acknowledging the importance of showing british support for democracy in libya and showing that britain remains steadfast in its commitment to the libyan democracy but also acknowledging that democracy in its infancy is a very difficult process and it's it's a process that takes a long time to get to the final destination we last heard the prime minister pledging support for libya fifteen months ago during his previous visit the not all that much has changed for the better and many things have gotten worse so what's the difference this time. i think i come back to that to the

last point i made i don't think anyone thought this would be easy. there has to be an acknowledgement of the difficulties of the fractious nature of libyan society and as david cameron himself said often the removal of a dictatorial government exposes other functions in society and we certainly shouldn't be ignored in them but i think the important part of his message is that both david cameron the government of the united kingdom and the european union nato powers are very keen to support the process towards libyan democracy to help train security forces to ensure that libya remain secure a country and its economy grows many of us are asking why he traveled to algeria specifically after such there's been attacking to hold hostages taken in the desert are the we you know cameron now proclaims that a new tighter security and defense relationship with that country is is is is what he's trying to you know to to gun out for but really what's we're looking at mali

right now looking what was going on in libya and algeria volatile areas regions that they won't go into mali but now they have and it almost seems like everybody is asking isn't what's happening in mali really what's happening is that the backflow or what happened in libya well i mean de way are there any myself you know what i'm arguing you. well david david cameron himself made the point in his visit to. that that we are entering into a generational struggle and where the growth of al qaeda has been limited in countries like afghanistan it has grown in north africa and so the arrival of the sort of terrorist acts and on rest in northern africa in northern africa is

i think to be expected and that's what david cameron has said i think the reason for his visit there is is to show the support that britain and the u.k. government wants to give northern african countries that that wish to tradition to democracy although not necessarily in military terms there are other ways we can give support training is is one advice on on economic growth is is another and i think that's the line david cameron wants to play at the moment would you say let's talk about his interests in libya b.p. british petroleum is due to start drilling in libya soon could that have had something to do with it all full. well i mean as you'll be well aware tony blair had a very close relationship or a close relationship certainly with with colonel gadhafi and arrangements were made at that time with with british petroleum so if anything the transition to democracy and the uprising in libya has made it more difficult for western and particularly

british companies to operate in libya so i think what david cameron is looking for is a return to to economic. growth and stability in north africa that we we thought we began to see just after the revolution but as stagnated is the nation has had certain fractious elements exposed and of course those interests seem that libya algeria in the top five of africa of oil producers together pumping out eighty five percent of the continent the black gold do you maintain that britain's interests in them has nothing to do with that i mean we are rich in this facing some economic tough times right now so are we moving back to north africa for that . no certainly not because as i said the british petroleum and other oil companies had interests in libya before. the colonel gadhafi but now that they have

a change it seems to be easier for your government to go back and say well we've helped in the region changes so now we can come in and start talking about how we can work together again because that's how we looks like from now actually the else is sitting. well while i don't think it does look like that because actually it's more difficult it's more difficult to do business in libya after the revolt but. i think the important point is that whilst tony blair felt that he could deal with colonel gadhafi david cameron didn't feel that the united kingdom could acceptably go on dealing with a sponsor of terrorism and so even though it would make it more difficult for british companies to trade in libya in the short term he felt that it was it was important to support the revolution it certainly hasn't made it easier for british companies quite the opposite cameron has said the terror must be fought to with quote everything at our disposal end quote terrorism very ambiguous term these days

isn't it some syrian rebels are terrorists yet the west backs the cause where do we draw the line i'm sorry could you repeat that i don't want counsel cameron said that terror must be fought with quote he said this everything at our disposal now terror is a very ambiguous word to these days some syrian rebels that terrorists and yet the west backs the accords so where do we draw the line in terms of who do we call terrorists and who do we not call terrorists well al qaeda is clearly a terrorist organization that is syria. and the rebels in syria got him or made those comments he was he was referring specifically to. or made those comments in light of what happened in algeria and that makes the point very clearly that british lives were lost in algeria. so

there's not only threats to lives abroad but there's also threats of lives at home because where al-qaeda training centers have been subdued in afghanistan they've now moved to northern africa that's what david cameron means when he talks about terrorism is this increase meant of of helping algerian terms of militaries is this part of him saying we here with you we're looking out for you anyway is that money going to come from in terms of the u.k. the budget the military budget keeps on being fleshly yet he's proclaiming all these things to the libyan amelle gerry and so where's the money going to come from just briefly. when it comes to training and the sharing of intelligence resources there may not be a great cost to that but what david cameron is saying is not saying we're going to send troops into into algeria or indeed mali in large numbers what he's saying is that we want to support in terms of information in terms of training and i think

that's these are things that come at a relatively low cost to the united kingdom and to the european union into nato but kind of a relatively high value in the countries in question then harry screamy chair of the tory think tank of the ball at the ball group thank you for your time. thank you right well david cameron splashed out a broad it's a different story at home british taxpayers. further complicating what some say is an already bloated texas didn't feed in the u.k. for compost that's coming up short he. told. me it's technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've gone to the future covered. you know sometimes you see

a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom are welcome to the big picture. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are all today.

you're watching our team a decorated cia better entering the torture whistle blowing agency outcast is now awaiting a summons to start a prison sentence john kiriakou was one of the first to confirm the existence of washington's waterboarding program and has been sent to jail for two and a half years for revealing the name of an undercover agent speaking to r.t. he himself said his sheer crime was speaking against the government first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch together. charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but

once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was not long enough and if she had had the ability to she would have given me ten years you have called it ironic that the first person to be convicted with regards to the torture program is the man who actually shed light on it do you believe the others who put the program together will ever face justice. i don't actually i think that president obama just like president bush has made a conscious decision to allow the torturers to allow the people who conceived of of the torture and implemented the policy to allow the people who destroyed the evidence of the torture and the attorneys who used specious legal analysis to approve of the torture to walk free and i think that once that decision has been made that's the end of it and nobody will be prosecuted except me it's no secret that obama's administration has been especially harsh on whistle it was all ford

leniency in the security sensitive times well see this is i think this is exactly what the problem is in this post nine eleven atmosphere that we find ourselves in we have been losing our civil liberties incrementally over the last decade to the point where we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become you know ten years ago the thought of the national security agency spying on american citizens and intercepting their emails would have been anathema to americans and now it's just part of normal business. the idea that that our government would be using drone aircraft to assassinate american citizens who have never seen the inside of a courtroom who have never been charged with a crime and have not had due process which is their constitutional right would have been unthinkable and it's something now that happens every every so often every few

weeks every few months and there is no public outrage i think this is a very dangerous development. israel must move all of its a half a million settlers out of palestine as a fresh new in human rights report dubbed a biased and counterproductive by telling the investigations they saw a growing settlement russia could be seen as a war quite details just ahead. r.t. has managed to get exclusive footage of what's believed to be atrocities committed by the mali an army in a town liberated from islamist rebels with the help of french forces and information on civilian casualties in mali has been notably scarce we spoke to a local journalist gonzalo one show who told us of the originals of the disturbing tape. as we continue moving north and find reports of extrajudicial killings and evidence of crimes we have heard of the murder of a few citizens by mali and soldiers in the town of silver not only did they kill

them they shove their bodies into the drinking water well ok today in the center of the town like in the rest of the population watch rules are hearing of cases where people are being prosecuted for trying to earn a living under the rule of militants all sixteen year old adama says he was unknowingly employed as a cook and butler by jihadists who is now being accused of terrorism. after i started working as a cook in the town of do when i went to surveyor there i met an old man and i asked him for a drink of water he said that he won't share water with terrorists i said that i was in a terrorist and i was just thirsty then i was put into prison i am no terrorist i didn't even know that i was working with militants i only realized that through the rumors i started hearing it and then when everyone went on to the frontline i was just cooking food for them no one even talked to me i think persecution zoë also reportedly becoming widespread in the area of arabs and said to be persecuted on

charges of allegedly collaborating with the militants in the government and the french troops are fighting against our contacts in timbuktu also told us that shops belonging to arabs are being looted. the french officer retaking the final major city of condell from the slum as say they will soon not leave mali handing operations over to government troops divinest international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says this is a bad idea considering the lack of discipline and funding in the west african nation. but i hear now is how this surprises me i mean that first of all the million army does hold a grudge against the people who asked them from the northern part of the country and secondly the soldiers of very low paid and at very little armaments at such as a they're not really a regular army in that sense there's only. hardly a state apparatus functioning how can you really just of people and examine what

they do you can't you just ground in a country like that so the only thing you can do correctly is if you think people might be terrorist is hold them and arrest them and detain them but you certainly will do it is this kind of extra judicial executions but eternally surprises me that this is going on right now this country needs support yes this country needs are we why is it that this help only comes in the form of military invasions that's a basic question usually we should ask ourselves. and there are also fears of sectarian revenge attacks in mali following the french led military campaign more on this as well as images from the conflict torn country on r.t. dot com. the top story now israel's air strikes in syria to talk more about it i'm joined live by germany based journalist manual oxon writer now why whether israel launches a serious research facility mr olson writer. well good evening so

much for this first question because it shows how all. being in europe and also in the west we are asking why i would use raila taking research center israel by the ways claiming it was a boy delivering rockets to hezbollah but we haven't seen what it is trail of picking and it is for that they can settle this thing that israel attacked the warring country that country made that country a very poor wench no more it she. would do this we wouldn't ask if we discussed the aid we won't discuss the issue we were discussing that this was an open war edge. so you're saying that israel attacked a servant country but yet they're keeping silent on the issue what's going to get them to talk now that yes that's it also for israel went big jake seems to be

silent at first but already now what american newspapers at the washington post they said they but upon reaching that it was a new strain. so i think this is the it was a way and maybe we can expect some more ethics in control of the people of syria why has syria sailed to provide any videos or photographs from the side to support this claim. well this of course would be a queer to be should ask the syrians but anyway i don't think that we should ask. for circles which is us or meet us at this point is the crisis really that we should discuss the issue of why and. take some of which take you straight course you know that there is a ceasefire since nine hundred seventy three between syria and israel now let's throw in the whole way and imus from the west any call on this what is happening i think russia was the only state i was condemning this effect there was nothing from

the west pure silence and business really really really a shaming for the west embarrassed in the west so i'm asking you then why do you think if at all it did happen this attack did happen or why did they attack that particular site. well this and of several reasons first of all is that the syrian media that it. used to be attacked already in the past by the so called records forced by the so-called there was a force but they were not successful. a lot of the few of the syrians that made it like that now are you throwing the baby out the rebel if you can exchange that research then of what about what it's going to research there i don't know i wasn't there but what is for sure is that my it's also the rebel side or the intention of these very well might be the so-called armed opposition damascus is threatening a revenge attack how destructive could it be given that the state is being dragged into a bloody and exhausting civil war. the danger is no real behind this region you may

not get that now edge between turkey and the west especially the illegal because we are in soldiers and. it really represents them we have known this region a lot of army from all over the road waiting for action and what you saw what we were the period playing with the choir and the supply rich the rich of war in the region and much more all of the trolls or so i thought i pointed to either a dangerous situation right now manuel ox and write a german journalist thank you for sharing your thoughts on the subject because of. the u.s. senate has started a confirmation hearing for one of president obama's most controversial choices for a key job in his team job hey gold nominated to be the new defense secretary has been under fire for his stance on iran and is accused of being anti israel artie's gannets if you can explain why certain political groups

a so opposed to his candidacy chuck hagel has been under attack since his name was floated as president obama's pick for the defense secretary position it would see attack ads on all major u.s. t.v. channels saying what a terrible defense secretary chuck hagel would be also our december and much of january they've been running these ads you know between commercials of beauty products prescription drugs and whatnot so somewhere between those you could catch attack ads like this one secretary of defense chuck hagel president obama says he supports sanctions on iraq voted against legal voted against labeling iran's revolutionary guard a terrorist group and while president obama says all options are on the table for preventing a nuclear iran he says military action is not viable these are the responsible options president obama or secretary of defense chuck hagel is not a responsible option. that ad was sponsored by the emergency committee for israel

so what that truck a will do to deserve that as a u.s. senator chuck hagel has been critical of israel's policies he's been critical of the israeli lobby in washington here's what he said the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i've always argued against some of the dumb things they do because i don't think it's in the interest of israel i just don't think it's smart for israel and of quote among other things chuck hagel dared to say that u.s. interests should trump israeli interests if they conflict he supported direct negotiations with iran and unlike many other politicians here in washington who keep repeating the all options on the table mantra but these publicly they say that the chuck hagel has been straightforward in saying a strike on iran should not be an option and he has also been a proponent of a more even handed u.s. policy with regards to these really palestinian conflict and the u.s. has been anything but even handed on the issue it's also for statements like this

one that he's been under attack take a look this is chuck hagel in two thousand and six the united states will remain committed to defending israel our relationship with israel is a special and historic were but it need not and cannot be at the expense of our arab and muslim relationships. that is an irresponsible and dangerous fault choice some saw president obama's decision to nominate chuck hagel as his message to these really hard liners we actually heard president obama say there is too much war talk going on and maybe nominating chuck hagel is his way of bringing down the tension and not much not everybody here in washington likes that message but what's interesting since the beginning of the attack campaign against chuck hagel over these two months or so many of the attackers have sort of withdrawn their objections over chuck hagel nomination some say could be because

they received assurances behind closed doors that as defense secretary chuck hagel is not going to make any drastic moves to really challenge washington's foreign policy orthodoxies. for a deeper insight into the story i'm joined live by an analyst for antiwar dot com kelly of flaws. hegel has been criticized for being anti israel is the shielding himself from the accusation by saying he's ready to act on iran or always say something more behind it. i think if you're referring to his words today i think we have to keep in mind that he is his main goals today was to appeal to this group of senators and i think when it comes to israel he has he's in a position right now where he is he has to present himself as someone who is supporting the current white house policy an issue israel so he had to be very careful about how he was saying and what he was saying and he knew that the

senators were coming for war for him today on on israel and his past statements i don't think what you saw today was any go ahead. you can finish off. i was going to say many believe it has i don't think it. i was going to say mentally that hagel is not mean nation could mean that the white house is not in favor of militaristic policies so much more any more does his statement on iran to prove them wrong oh i see what you're saying on iran and i think this is what i got from it what i what i think is that we have been reading too much into what the white house policy on iran going forward may be and i think that we have yet to know what obama is planning for one and i think chuck hagel is more recent statements including the one hundred twelve page set of answers he

gave to the committee's questions that was released yesterday. it leaves the door open it leaves the door open to continuing tough sanctions but also the use of force so i don't think we should read too much into his selection of chuck hagel the man who did show some skeptical skepticism about iran and using military force in iran of the past i think that that door is still open and i think we should keep that in mind let's speak a little bit about afghanistan will haydel be able to read this drawn out military campaign. i don't know if he will be ramping it up again from what i've read in his one hundred twelve page answers to the committee questions as well as his answers to the committee today i think that he is being very careful and what he's saying right now and right now his.

his position is that of the white house that we have a two thousand and fourteen drawdown and that we are going to ramp up the training of afghan troops but i do not see or sense that he may try to throttle that for word or excel or rate that in any way at this time everything that he said today and wrote in his answers was perfectly in line with white house policy i did not see him deviating from that or hinting that that policy should change anytime soon hayden was also known as among among his supporters of the so-called global zero movement which stands for complete elimination of nuclear weapons under the worldwide regime of inspections do you think this might be used as an excuse for a new interventions just i'm not sure about that i really haven't thought too much in that realm at this point i think that there

was a considerable effort to draw him out on that issue today during the hearings but i don't think that there was any new news broken or any anything that we could take away from it in the way of of new interventions you know kelly's on my perspective . we're going to have to leave it right there thank you very much for your time here on t.v. sharing your views on the subject ok thank you write i'll be back with more news in about ten minutes katie is here with all the latest in business after this short break. you know i can kind of sort of understand the mindset of an evil dictator i have trouble understanding what is going on or maybe not going on in the minds of the terrified cogs who believe all the propaganda give up all their rights for the

illusion of safety to coach jerry seinfeld who are these people well maybe some of them maybe working at your local school bring to us at a pennsylvania school suspended a kindergartner note kindergartner as a terrorist threat because she threatened to shoot another student with a gun that shoots soap bubbles i guess this was all a mix up because the girl she wanted to shoot didn't understand that it was in reference to bubbles and not bullets children in kindergarten can often misunderstand things but the administration of the school seems to be no smarter than six year olds immediately going into total panic mode guess what this is hardly the first time that something like this has happened remember the kid who pointed a piece of chicken at a teacher and said bang the thing is that the real terrorism of the event is that the mental sleeves of fear propaganda that work at these schools are raising a generation of children to be just like them somebody shoot me with a bubble gun that's just my opinion.

that welcomes business i'm casey thank you families and date. battle in the world currency war central banks are sharpening their knives and getting ruthless in their attempts to devalue their currencies in order to fight off competition from rival economists so far who looks set to be victorious and who is in the firing my well earlier i spoke to mike ingram from b g c brokers and i asked him exactly that . the party that's definitely on the offensive now or some of the big central banks

united states absolutely the bank of england has been there and now we're starting to see the jam bank of japan waiting in you know potential with massive intervention to to weaken the yen on the on the flip side of the people who are likely to be the losers i would have to say generally the emerging market economies and also poor old euro zone with the e.c.b. largely unable to participate in monetary expansion and let's pick up on that now with the year i because it is going in the opposite direction is strengthening how much of a disadvantage is that. it's a massive problem for the year is in the mirror zone is already in recession the latest data that we've had is that. surprising that on the upside countries like spain are really really struggling and you know it's not as if europe has an

inflation problem this is only going to. increase deflationary forces it's going to slow down. growth it's going to slow down investment so yeah it's really going to get beaten up badly by this this currency and let's talk about the emerging market currencies that you mentioned that how do they fit into this well what happens to they have to fight with and what about the russian ruble what what's that role. well their options actually tend to be relatively limited because they would effectively meaning for instance that we have to be. buying relatively low yielding dollars or yen against their own relatively high yielding currency so the financial cost would actually be quite high so what we'll probably end up seeing is some form of currency good troll packing such as we've already seen i say russia's obviously got something of a peg there itself but also. currency control which was ill for instance in korea.

and let's talk about the currency war and that still concept of it all how much correct me if i'm wrong does it actually damage global growth then surely there must be other ways cease to stagnate economy. that's an excellent question i mean. in theory if everybody indulged in q.e. then the net effect on currency is a bilateral right so i want to get to the other might actually not be that much at all. you know in our group even if a lot of monetary stimulus that would you know push investors into risk assets and it would in theory stimulating effect on the global economy of course in practice what is likely to happen nothing is going to be coordinated everybody will try to seek some sort of a project over everyone else there are some you know central banks some authority

as like the e.c.b. as you mentioned earlier which basically aren't able to engage in this kind of quantitative easing so what would happen you'd see for currency volatility is this investment doesn't like to see that at all so what that would mean is probably a repeat of what we saw in the ninety's thirty's and it would it would negatively impact of global economic growth and just to conclude now as we are talking about a war who do you see as the most victorious in all of this if you could name an economy a currency right now that is winning who would it pay. well on current form it seems to pay us because you know despite the rather bad fourth quarter g.d.p. numbers released yesterday it is one of the few large economies that seems of its way back out of the economic abyss. so i guess we haven't seen the final chapter in that story and if all else. you can be fairly sure that it's from one of the

markets of me to exploit that everybody party to u.s. treasuries which will lower long term interest rates in the u.s. anyway so it's time to see that it's a question a case of us have heard today we're going to have trails everybody else moves. or we're on the topic of current system let's check out the russian ruble and as you can see it managed to gain against the u.s. dollar but lost out to the common carriers say we stay with russia and see what the equity markets did and it was gains that she's so good a quarter percent for the r.t.s. and the mice it's very much helped along by the price in or that she continues going north giving a bit of support to the moscow markets. meanwhile europe it's a completely different color spectrum you can see it was declines are london's for the suffering a second day of decline in a row actually the boss is still on track to see a third best january on record lows since it came into inception of the investors

though keeping an eye on the fiscal cliff situation this week lots going on in terms of u.s. data which out the u.s. markets then falling deeper now as you can see we've actually got some gains there but it's pretty flat so round to be fair is today as i say we've got a flat performance there the nasdaq three basis points for the dow jones is around a tenth of stand up in positive territory but the best yearly starts for the u.s. stocks since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. moving on then germany's comic of volkswagen will stop the conveyors for four days next month because of a lack of demand in europe fund is predicted to be a gloomy year for many european or asian manufacturers however the russian car market has grown ten percent last year but experts say we have seen the last of the industry growth for years to come as he on a politico vishy reports for us. and you're

a ford plans to close down three factories me thought in russia cuts work you mean the four days old pill satisfactory in europe's biggest car market germany general motors called the situation on the right here come up with catastrophic rushes one of the most dynamic all to markets in the world off to japan and the u.s. and it's the second biggest in europe formula one tire maker. has invested over two hundred million euros in two factories in russia the company's managing director market and kate explains why russia has become one of their strategic markets then makes we've changed to be more and more a capacity of a better because of the premium segment. we'll reach a certain level but the premier league continue you know britain is also a place where we produce for the export mostly for an alternate of but we have

a distribution channel it's quite strong and so russia today at the platform of from the exports to sadness one in four russians owns a car compared to one in two people in western europe russia is growing g.d.p. and stronger help support the industry the head of state corporation ross tech said again chances of says russia's w t o membership will also give a boost to the sector which affects that kills vista but we hope that our car market will be growing not only on domestic production but also on imports since we entered the w t o market is open and they can ship as many cars as they like. pricewaterhouse coopers says that in several years the country may become the biggest european car market and even overtake japan and will peak and ten hears at nearly four million annual car sales but also at a modus three percent growth rate that's what business are to central russia.

and it seems germans are losing their taste a bit consumption for the national beverage reach its lowest level since the country united back in one nine hundred ninety but why is the burning question what one of the main reasons is an aging population which means the core big drinking age group is declining and another reason is that in the past germans would not think twice about having a beer for breakfast but these days it's seen as well is frowned upon pretty much nothing wrong with the preface now we have lots more coming up here on r.t.c. stay with us for the nice about tomorrow with more business. secret laboratory to mccurry was able to build most sophisticated robots which will

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back with me to bottom of a hill on r t is a news desk for more analysis added news the u.n. human rights council has released a report saying israel must move also close out of palestinian territories the paper says the settlements of violation of human drives destroying palestinian properties and crops and driving them off their land israel has refused to cooperate with the investigation calling the report biased and counterproductive human rights activists and blogger roy amal says israel is damaging its own credibility. israel has been complaining for many years that it's being singled out by various un organs. the human rights council one of the things that it was formed to do was to have a more equitable process which has the same level of scrutiny for all you would members and although this report what did single out israel it's boycott of the

human rights council is comprehensive it refuse to participate in a review process which every other un member attends everybody israel attended four years ago and that undermines not only israel's international position but the who human rights process in general four hundred million dollars in debt and ukraine has that russia will fold more like you pay a fine of online how it managed to get so far into the ridge and hope it hopes to get out of it. and the craving for coal the energy hungry china is burning as much of the black stuff as the rest of the world combined with levels of aid for lucian in the country skyrocketing that's all online for you. which is government has raised taxes twice as fast as cutting them according to a new report putting a damper on david cameron's pledge to create

a lower tax country figures show almost three hundred u.g. hikes from the ruling coalition for the complicating an already tory a system point a boy picks up the story. by the end of this parliament the u.k. public cuts to some one hundred nineteen various taxes that all sounds great but for a government that's promised to create a lower tax country news that they've actually increased some two hundred ninety nine of this hank says might be somewhat confusing the brits assume going to see an extra levy on carbon dioxide emissions that means energy bills are going to go up they're also going to see an increase in air passenger duty which means more expensive air travel and then some of the recent changes to u.k. tax law quite simply bizarre revenue and customs recently increased. for hairdressers renting a chair in a salon and then who can forget the recent. good scandal when u.k.

tax code stated that a pasty would only be taxed if it was sold at above ambient temperatures critics say the system is simply too chaotic britain has one of the most complex. jobs increases prices and wages so the time when families are struggling with the rising cost of living. so many tax increases. difficult for them it's clear that the british government is in desperate need of cash to deal with the dismal public finances which means that by trimming a little bit of tax here and adding more tax burden there by twenty fifteen the u.k. treasury hopes to get an extra eighty four billion pounds in tax compared with the year before they came to power but critics say that once again is the british public which ends up out of pocket. r.t.

london. focus on how british authorities are handling the financial crisis and all they've tried to manipulate public perception of the issue. well korea's government is expected to block the russian finance construction of a new nuclear power plant this comes after a national referendum decided in favor of the project the vote however was invalidated due to a low turnout bulgaria's allies in europe and the us here the project would mean energy dependence on russia and putin man of charo says authorities did their best to bring the vote down

now to some other international news in brief workers in athens have gone on a two day strike with hundreds of protesting against austerity measures that will make deep cuts to their pay five hundred medical staff chanted slogans in front of the health ministries doctors pop workers and public transport stuff took part in a number of different demonstrations across the greek capital. egypt the top politicians have reportedly signed

a document renouncing widespread violence as protests across the country the agreement came at a meeting attended by leaders of the muslim brotherhood and the heads of liberal and secular opposition movements it was called as president morsi cut short his trip to germany over the ongoing unrest at home without securing any backing from the lynn. and that's all for now i'll be back in just a few minutes and stay with us here on our team.

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